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Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: Intellectual Masculinity and the Female Intellect in Humanist Petrarchism
Chapter 1 - Women of Stone: Gender and Politics in the Petrarchan World
Chapter 2 - In Laura’s Shadow: Gendered Dialogues and Humanist Petrarchis in the Fifteenth Century
Chapter 3 - Laura Speaks: Sisterhood, Amicitia, and Marital Love in the Female Latin Petrarchist Writings of the Fifteenth Century
PART II: Pietro Bembo and the Legacy of Humanist Petrarchism
Chapter 4 - Theorizing Gender: Nation Building and Female Mythology
in the Ciceronian Quarrels
Chapter 5 - Politicizing Gender: Bembo’s Private and Public Petrarchism
Afterword
Bibliography